L'ubriachezza dal Vecchio al Nuovo Mondo

Stored with barrels full of alcoholic beverages and men ready to empty them: the ships that sailed from the ports of the Old Continent to the Americas brought a new alcoholic knowledge to those places. Prone to drinking, educated in the mysticism of wine, tavern-goers, the colonizers encountered very different indigenous cultures on the other side of the world, which had established complex relationships over the centuries with a vast series of fermented products, relationships in which the ritual drunkenness could at times take on a sacred character. From the impact, new ways of drinking to excess arose: epochal, unhealthy, curative, prophetic, pugnacious, deadly, punishable, ecstatic, common, solitary, artistic, visionary, sacred, profane.